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GoDaddy Unblocked in China

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After a week hiatus, GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name host, is back online in China.

According to my early report, GoDaddy.com was blocked during the Olympics to prevent Chinese nationals from registering domain names after the names of Chinese athletes who won (Gold, Silver or Bronze) in the Olympics. The Chinese government has a policy of protecting famous names from being registered and allows only the owner the right to register it as his/her domain name.

Since GoDaddy has suspend lots of Chinese human rights sites without warning last year, Isaac Mao think GoDaddy “It deserved! No tears” — The hidden rules in China will change all the time. Just like Godaddy’s case, any cases can become your nightmare whether it’s an event, a people’s name, or a domain name. And the worst thing you can never recover is that you lost the support from users.  There’s only one government one business can please today or tomorrow, but there are millions of users one can’t be fooled.

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8 Responses to “GoDaddy Unblocked in China”

  1. safarinew on September 14th, 2008 10:39 am

    hi this is my first time visiting your english blog
    not bad!

    keep it on!!!

  2. Visiter on September 14th, 2008 6:10 pm

    Alawys reading your chinese blog,your English blog also contains intersting contents.

    By the way,Do you know whether blogspot was unblocked in china now?

  3. ffcok blog on September 18th, 2008 2:37 am

    i use godaddy’s hosting for my website, but my dedicated ip is blocked by china government in recent month, i can’t log in my hosting account now. i used to think it will be free forever using USA hosting, but i can’t keep away from control of the china government.

    First visit your blog, it is very good.Your english is so excellent.

  4. meinv on October 12th, 2008 11:51 pm

    you know,your english blog very good,i enjoying it,keep it on,

  5. Carole on November 14th, 2008 11:36 pm

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    Thanks..
    Carole

  6. Estella on November 16th, 2008 9:58 pm

    I’m glad to find this useful information.great blog you have!

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    Estella